The Mind's Eye
From the author of the #1 national bestselling Musicophilia comes a truly visionary book: an exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding new forms of perception to create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world.
Following the phenomenal success of his international bestseller Musicophilia, the inimitable Oliver Sacks returns with another book on the extraordinary interaction between our brain and our senses — in this case, vision. In The Mind's Eye, Sacks examines questions ranging from the primary experiences of how we perceive depth or color or motion to the complex matter of how different individuals have varied ways of thinking and experiencing or recreating the visual world. Like The…
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October 4, 2011OLIVER SACKS, referred by the New York Times as “the poet laureate of medicine,” spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings. His work was frequently published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and over the years, he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians.
Letters
Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On
Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Everything in Its Place
Oliver Sacks
The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks
Neurotribes
Steve Silberman; Foreword by Oliver Sacks
On the Move
Oliver Sacks
Gratitude
Oliver Sacks
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks
Migraine
Oliver Sacks